We can think of at least four reasons to not cook dinner.
1. It’s cooler.
When you don’t turn on the stove or preheat the oven, your kitchen never heats up. Your brow never even glistens.
2. It’s greener.
Going heatless means your dinner creates a smaller carbon footprint: You’re conserving the gas or electricity you’d normally be using, and you’re not producing any toxic emissions.
3. It’s cheaper.
Have you looked at your utilities bill recently? Gasoline and food prices get all the ink, but electricity and natural gas aren’t exactly going down. And if you actually added up the cost of using that central air conditioning to counteract your hot kitchen, not to mention that jet-propelled hood over your stove to suck out all those fumes, it wouldn’t be pretty.
4. It’s faster.
You don’t have to wait around for soup to steep or meat to roast. When you’re done prepping your ingredients, all that’s left to do is set the table and pop open a bottle of wine. And at dinner’s end, there’s no casserole dish or saute pan to scour.
